Doctors among 6,080 highly skilled workers denied visas to take up jobs in UK

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More than 6,000 visa applications for highly skilled workers like scientists, IT specialists and doctors with job offers in the UK were refused because of a Government-imposed cap on numbers, it has been revealed.
The refusals came between December 2017 and March 2018 and were the result of an annual limit of 20,700 so-called Tier 2 visas introduced in 2011 while Theresa May was home secretary.
It is understood that the limit had been breached only once before, in 2015, when 66 engineering roles were refused.